Search Results: the bell jar by plath

London: William Heinemann,, 1963. An intimate family copy, with photograph of Frieda inscribed by Plath First edition, first impression, a superb association copy, with contemporary annotations by Ted Hughes and more recent annotations by Frieda Hughes; this copy at one time also had the ownership inscription of Plath herself on the front free endpaper. Loosely inserted is an intimate photo of Plath and the new-born Frieda, inscribed by Plath on the verso, "Frieda almost new Chalcot Square". This copy appears to have been read by Ted Hughes, with two pencil annotations in his hand in the text and marginal pencil lines in four locations. The marginal marks are next to passages relating to the recognition of truth, the "windowless corridor of pain... waiting to open up and shut [women] in again" (p. 68), and the persistence of life "no matter how much you knelt and prayed" (p. 174), while his annotations relate to Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974), the novelist and poet widely thought to be the basis… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1963. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light lean to binding, spotting to textblock edge. Light tanning to contents and endsheets lightyl foxed. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light wear, tanning and foxing, vertical crease to front flap. Plath's semi-autobiographical novel, published in the UK under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas eight years before its first American appearance. Plath committed suicide less a month after its initial publication, cementing the book's reputation as a tragically unheeded cry for help. It is now perhaps the single most iconic female coming-of-age story.

London: Heinemann, 1963. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Rare true first edition of Plath's only novel, a modern classic, published in London under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" and unpublished in the US until after her death. Plath's self-described 'potboiler' was damned with dismissive praise in its own day as a sort of girl's CATCHER IN THE RYE. (Though, as Heather Clark notes, if Esther Greenwood has a male antecedent, it is not Holden Caulfield but Joyce's Stephen Dedalus.) Harrowingly personal and famously autobiographical, THE BELL JAR is also overtly political: an "indictment of the fifties in America," an adolescent girls' book "written by a woman who has been to hell and back and wants to revenge herself on her tormentors. It is a girls' book filled with poison, vomit, blood, and volts of electricity" (Malcolm). A lovely copy, almost always found in inferior condition. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (18s) color pictorial dust jacket… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1963. First edition of the author's classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, small names to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Thomas Simmonds. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable. The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic. "In looking at the madness of the world and the world of madness [this book] forces us to consider the great question posed by all truly realistic… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1963. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing of one of Sylvia Plath's best-known work, here published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Good. Lean to spine, covers stained, light foxing to textblock edge with a remainder mark to the bottom edge. Former owner name and date to front paste down, and letter "B" to front free endpaper. Thin line of paper residue to rear paste down. Pages toned and with an occasional crease. A serviceable copy.

The Second UK printing published by William Heinemann, London in 1964. This, the 'Contemporary Fiction' edition, was published the year after the first Heinemann edition and two years before the Faber edition was published under the author's real name - Sylvia Plath. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. Bound in the publisher's original green boards with silver lettering to the spine, with a lilac top-stain which is lightly faded. Slight pushing to the spine tips with light spotting to the prelims and the text-block. Free from inscriptions. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. Light edge-wear with some mild creasing and edge-wear at the spine ends and edges. Some fading of the lilac colouring to the spine as usually encountered. Some light age related markings in places with a small closed tear to the lower front panel edge. The wrapper remains very attractive in the removable Brodart archival cover. Loosely inserted are two 'Contemporary Fiction' Newsletters (numbers 21 and 25).… Read More

Published by London, Heinemann Contemporary Fiction 1964. later edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Second edition, 1964 issued with her pseudonym Victoria Lucas (as was the first edition). A Fine copy with the author's real name ("Sylvia Plath") added in ink by a previous owner neatly to the title page (see photo). Dust jacket is very close to Fine and is unclipped with just a little fading to spine

Contemporary Fiction. William Heinemann for Readers Union. London. 1964. Readers Union. William Heinemann. 1964. Second edition though first edition thus and the only edition, besides the first, bearing Sylvia Plath's pseudonym Victoria Lucas. Hardback in DW. Slight lean to spine, small brown dent to front pastedown, three tiny spots of foxing to prelims otherwise a remarkably clean and fresh copy in wrapper that is slightly soiled and worn and has a light cup-ring to front panel.

London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First Edition thus, being the first edition published under Plath's real name following the original 1963 publication under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas." Octavo. 258 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows a couple minor nicks at extremities and faint vertical crease to front panel. Light shelfwear to boards, spine mildly sunned, and slight lean to boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good or better copy of Plath's only published novel; this and the original Heinemann first edition scarce in retail.

Harper & Row. 1st American edition. Condition: Very fine copy. 8vo, original half-cloth and paper over boards, dust jacket in fine condition. 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 Inches. 296 PP. Stated "First U.S. Edition" on the copyright page. Original price of $6.95 intact on front flap. Biographical note by Lois Ames. Drawings by the author. DJ in archival cover. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1971.

Harper & Row, 1971. First US Edition, first printing. Faint toning to end pages, light fading and rubbing to extremities, spine foot very lightly pressed, fine in near fine, faintly worn dust jacket, with very minor soiling and foxing to inside. Two short, closed tears to lower front panel with subsequent wrinkle, in mylar cover. An excellent copy..

New York: Harper and Row, 1971. 1st U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Very light edge wear to bottom of jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. First edition of Sylvia Plath's only novel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pen-and-ink drawings by Plath. Biographical note by Lois Ames. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Amy Isbey Duevell. An exceptional example. The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic. "In looking at the madness of the world and the world of madness [this book] forces us to consider the great question posed by all truly… Read More

London: Faber, 1966. First thus. hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. First thus, First UK edition published with Sylvia Plath's real name, three years after the book first appeared, with a pseudonym. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Harper & Row, 1971. first. hardcover. near fine/very good. First US edition, as stated on copyright page. Book near fine, slight rubbing along bottom edges and corners, spot on foredge and bottom edge. Dust jacket very good, minor sunning along top edges of flaps, very minor wear.

London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition thus, the first to be published with the author's real name, following its initial UK publication in 1963 under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas." Plath's self-described 'potboiler' was damned with dismissive praise in its own day as a sort of girl's CATCHER IN THE RYE (though as Heather Clark notes, if Esther Greenwood has a male antecedent, it is not Holden Caulfield but Joyce's Stephen Dedalus). Harrowingly personal and famously autobiographical, infused with a "cold, unfriendly humor" (Hardwick), THE BELL JAR is also overtly political: an "indictment of the fifties in America," an adolescent girls' book "written by a woman who has been to hell and back and wants to revenge herself on her tormentors. It is a girls' book filled with poison, vomit, blood, and volts of electricity" (Malcolm). 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (25s) black and white dust jacket. 258 pages. Jacket with… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. A particularly clean and well-preserved copy, price intact, no markings. 8vo. Original maroon quarter cloth; printed dust jacket designed by Amy Isbey Duevell, unclipped with $6.95 price preserved. First American edition of Plath's only novel, a semi-autobiographical roman à clef. It was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. It was published under her own name in the UK in 1967 - she tragically died by suicide one month after publication. The US edition was not published until 1971, in accordance with the wishes of her husband Ted Hughes and her parents.

Faber, 1966. Book. About Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus.. "Sylvia Plath is a major cultural icon who continues to inspire new generations of female readers. The Bell Jar is one of the defining novels of the 20th century." This novel was first published in 1963, under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas". This is the First edition published under the author's real name. Published 1966, a year before the first American edition. A nice copy, cocked, with a faint stain to the top edge, that does not bleed through to the pages. It is in a very nice, lightly edge worn dust jacket, that has the original 25s price. Quite uncommon..

London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edtion Thus. A bit of light soiling to inside covers & facing pgs. Moderate wear & some darkening to edges & inside of dust jacket. Some light soiling to back of dust jacket. Slight creasing to top spine end. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. A very nice copy. This novel was first published in 1963, under the psuedonym "Victoria Lucas". This copy of the book is the first edition published under Sylvia Plath's name. It precedes the first U.S. edition, published by Harper and Row in 1971..

New York: Harper & Row, , 1971. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Stated "First U.S. Edition" burgundy cloth, silver letters, lilac end-papers. VG- minor rubbing to extrems, sunning to the very top of the spine. lilac top-stain. 0471. DJ is Fair to Good, creases and closed tears, tape residue. Not price clipped. .